{"id":15504,"date":"2016-07-17T17:44:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T22:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15504"},"modified":"2016-07-17T17:44:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T22:44:33","slug":"wherein-george-burns-corrects-my-understanding-of-kierkegaard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/wherein-george-burns-corrects-my-understanding-of-kierkegaard\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein George Burns Corrects My Understanding of Kierkegaard"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, in my book report on Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling<\/em><\/a>, I wrote:<\/p>\n

One telling word choice that jarred me was vaudeville. Certainly Kierkegaard did not use a direct translation since he preceded the American theatre form by half a century or so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A couple weeks later, and I’m reading a book by George Burns that includes some photos, including one of a playbill for one of his and Gracie Allen’s vaudeville bits:<\/p>\n

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Note that this 1926 play bill says that it is Vaudeville’s Centennial Year. Which would put vaudeville’s origin in 1826, which is about fifteen years before Fear and Trembling<\/em> was written.<\/p>\n

The Wikipedia entry is a bit closer to my original reckoning of the origins of vaudeville<\/a> in the latter part of the 19th century, but given a playbill in a George Burns book and wikipedia, who are you gonna believe? Me, I’m going with the playbill.<\/p>\n

So I’m sorry to have spread misinformation. I didn’t look it up; I assumed I knew what I was talking about regarding the origin of vaudeville, and as the old saying goes, “When you ASSUME, you make an ASS of UME,” and ume<\/em>, as I seem to vaguely recall, is French for yourself<\/em>. But I’m only a blogger on an untrafficked blog. I can’t be arsed to look it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, in my book report on Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, I wrote: One telling word choice that jarred me was vaudeville. Certainly Kierkegaard did not use a direct translation since he preceded the American theatre form by half a century or so. A couple weeks later, and I’m reading a book by George Burns that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15505,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504\/revisions\/15505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}